Illinois Family Institute –
Laurie Higgins – 12/30/2013
“Progressives” wax jubilant
over the sexual revolution that continues unabated and has rapidly moved into
the arena of celebrating perversion. As with abortion, many in our culture who
don’t have seeing eyes or hearing ears fail to notice that we are no better
than earlier foolish, brutish cultures that deviated from truth to embrace
perversion and death. The difference now is in the sophistication—
technological, aesthetic, and intellectual—with which purveyors of deceit are
able to promote life-killing lies. The lies are sanitized by
pseudo-intellectualism, prettified by untrue imagery, and diminished by clever
and/or crude humor. Then comes the coup de grace: ad hominem attacks, false accusations, and threats of loss of
employment.
In their ignorance or
tactical savvy, “progressives” refuse to address the causes for this rapid
shift. It hasn’t been some organic, evolutionary movement in the direction of
truth. Simplistically, the causes are that “progressives” captured Hollywood, academia, and
the mainstream press. Once the Left became “the man,” they started wielding
their power the way “the man” always wields power.
They silence dissent and propagandize. Ironically,
those practices are most obvious in the place where the naïve and idealistic
would least expect it: our not-so-hallowed halls of learning. The first
educational institutions to succumb to censorship, indoctrination, and
oppression were our colleges and universities.
Then Leftist sexuality
dogmatists came for our high school
students, and now they’re taking aim at our littlest ones through “bullying prevention” activities,
“comprehensive” sex ed, and
discussions of “family diversity.”
“Family diversity” is a
euphemistic term used to expose kindergartners to deviant family structures in
a positive way. The view that families headed by homosexuals are equivalent to
families headed by a heterosexual couples is not an objective fact, and yet
it’s presented as one in public schools.
This view is a non-factual,
subjective assumption, and yet it’s the only one our schools present.
Public school teachers and administrators defend
their propagation of this ontological and moral belief by claiming that they
don’t want any child to “feel bad.” But it’s not the task of government schools
to help students “feel good” about all their life circumstances. And the goal
of helping students “feel good” about their life circumstances must never
extend to propagating subjective controversial (and false) ontological and
moral beliefs.
Yet another false and
subjective belief increasingly propagated in public schools is the belief that
gender confusion is not disordered. In their deference to and fear of Leftist
organizations, elementary schools are now beginning to allow children to use
bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the opposite sex.
The Left has yet to answer
this question:
If gender confused children
should not be compelled to use facilities with those whose subjective gender
“identity” they don’t share, then why should other children (i.e., those who
don’t suffer from gender confusion) be compelled to use facilities with those
whose objective biological sex they don’t share?
In the good old days before
the sexual revolution had taken root in the halls of learning and power,
parents could trust that their children’s teachers would espouse and
promote not just knowledge but wisdom and moral truth. Not so any more.
In myriad subtle and not so subtle ways, today’s
teachers in our government schools espouse and promote false and
destructive ideas that harm children and the future of this country.
I saw it firsthand when my
children attended and I worked at Deerfield
High School in Deerfield, Illinois.
If you look just at test scores, it’s an excellent school, and it had many
superb teachers. But a close look behind the curtain revealed a toxic environment of censorship and malignant gossip
about any colleague or parent who dared to express dissenting views on the
nature and morality of homosexuality.
Many have probably read
about the math teacher at Neuqua Valley High School, Hemant Mehta, who in his spare time works feverishly on his
blog, The Friendly Atheist, where he demonstrates a condescending distaste for
all things religious, particularly Christianity, often in language far more
offensive than the two anatomically correct terms that got Duck Dynasty’s Phil
Robertson in a peck of trouble. Mehta’s been in the news lately for trying
unsuccessfully to donate money to the Morton Grove Park Board after they lost
funding from the American Legion who objected to a board member who refused to
stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Mehta, the not-so-friendly
atheist, also has guest writers who promote a host of lousy ideas including
public acceptance of polyamory (Click HERE, and HERE and take note that these were written over four years
ago. They’re no Johnny-come-latelies to the sexual anarchy parade.) So, in his
free time, this role model for other people’s children is promoting hostility
toward Christianity and goodwill toward sexual deviance.
Some IFI readers may be
familiar with the homosexual high school English teacher from Maine, Rich Robinson, about whom I wrote several months ago. As you may remember, because he
has concluded that homoerotic “love” is normal and good and that homosexual
acts are moral, he feels justified in using his publicly subsidized position to
advance those assumptions and censor all competing views. Despite
requesting that he cease emailing me, he continues unabated, harassing me with
weekly emails that order me to admit I hate homosexuals. Since I have never
felt hatred for those who experience same-sex attraction, nor expressed
hatred for those who choose to act on those feelings, what he’s really
saying is that my expression of the belief that homosexual acts are perverse
constitutes hatred of persons. Of course, if biblical beliefs about gender and
sexuality are objectively true, asserting them is not an act of hatred but one
of love.
It all comes down to what is
true.
The teachers mentioned here
don’t even scratch the surface of the problem, let alone get to its dark
underbelly. Teachers who lack both
wisdom and a proper understanding of their roles as public educators (including
the limitations thereof) line the halls of academia. The problem is not
insoluble, but solving it will take both time and courage. Those who have
children in school now or will have children in school shortly need to find
alternatives to public education. And churches need to think creatively about
alternative ways to educate children in their faith communities as well
as help make these alternatives affordable. This should be a mission field
for churches. The need is urgent.
Finally, all who care about
the health and welfare of children and this country need to become involved in
the education of children. Whether you contribute your time, expertise, and
money to establishing affordable church-based schools or run for your local
school board, please in this coming year, commit to involving yourself in the
project of raising up a God-fearing generation of children.
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